The last Supergate panel of Dragon*Con was packed with stars from Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis. Jason Momoa, Torri Higginson, Robert Picardo, and Cliff Simon started the panel, but a ripple of confusion went through the capacity crowd when Joe Flanigan and Richard Dean Anderson were conspicuously absent. It wasn’t a long wait, though, before Flanigan and finally Anderson joined the panel, both to cheers and applause.

The audience placed their questions on cards before the panel started and then the …

It’s the podcast edition of the Dragon*Con Late Show for September 3rd, 2012. Brought to you by the Dragon*Con Videography Staff and the Daily Dragon.

If you’ve seen the X-Men on DCTV this weekend, you’ve seen the panel members for the “Xavier’s School for Costuming” panel Sunday 8:30PM M103-105 (Marriott). Jevokas “Java” Green moderated the panel that included Eric Green, Tam Songdog, Kellyn Stephens, Ace Talkingwolf, and Robert Stephens.

The panel (including the moderator) was made up of members of the cast and crew from the Uncanny X-Men Fan Series on the web, currently filming their second season. Java Green started the panel by introducing the …

Brandon Sanderson enthralled the crowd in the Westin Atlanta Ballroom on Sunday afternoon as he read an excerpt from A Memory of Light, the final installment in the Wheel of Time series, due out from Tor Books on January 8, 2013.  The excerpt, featuring the indomitable Matt, had the crowd laughing and cheering Sanderson’s deft use of humor, particularly when it came to Matt’s evolving cover story and wry internal dialogue.  When the reading came to an end, the audience …

The “Creating Warehouse 13 and the Agents” panel on Saturday in the Marriott was a pleasure as creator/writer Jane Espenson and writer Deric Hughes joined agents Eddie McClintock, Saul Rubinek, and Aaron Ashmore onstage.

One of the themes of the panel was how unique it was to work on the show. Jack Kenny, one of the show’s executive producers, is on set on a regular basis. Everyone agreed that it was a rare luxury and that actors on other shows are …

During the Electronic Frontiers Forum panel “Cyberwar and the Future of Cyber Conflict” (Sunday 10AM), Internet security expert Bruce Schneier gave the audience an overview of recent cyber attacks and issues in cyber security.  He began by defining cyber war as the “spectrum of state-sponsored actions in cyberspace.”

In April, 2011, Estonia suffered an attack on its government sites, one of the first large-scale such incidents.  Government sites were brought down.  Because Russia and Estonia were clashing politically at the time, …

And the winners are:

The two-part Create-A-Puppet Workshop with Lolly Lardpop ran Sunday from 4PM to 6:30PM in International South (Hyatt). Participants were given a bag with the pieces and instructions needed to make their own Lolly Lardpop. On each of four long tables were supplies like glue sticks, markers, scissors, and construction paper to allow the construction of the puppet. The tables were different heights for the smaller participants.

Leslie Carrara-Rudolph was the special guest on hand, and of course, Lolly Lardpop made the …

Author John G. Hartness had an unusual path to finding a publisher.  He self-published the first three volumes of his series, The Black Knight Chronicles, before selling them to Writing track sponsor Belle Bridge Books.

Daily Dragon (DD):  How would you describe your series?

John G. Hartness (JGH):  I call it comedic urban fantasy.  It’s hero-driven using classic comedy tropes.  My two heroes, Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood are like Abbot and Costello or Laurel and Hardy in style.  One is tall …

Sunday afternoon, Alice Cooper spent an hour answering questions to an exuberant and awestruck crowd at the Westin. The topics were as diverse as the man himself: performing, writing, marriage, religion, and the many other artists he has had the pleasure and honor of working with during his career.

Right from the outset, he referred to himself as, “The Moriarty to rock and roll.” He talked about how his band would walk into a room and people would take a step …